"There is a twisted understanding that only certain communities of the world are democratic, secure and prosperous, while the others have no significance other than to serve them. It is because of this understanding that democracy and prosperity are not allowed to progress in countries other than their own today. They even choose the countries of oppressed nations as the stage for the wars among themselves."
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